Bayesian test of normality versus a Dirichlet process mixture alternative

DOI10.1007/S13571-019-00210-0MaRDI QIDQ2040662zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Surya T. Tokdar, Ryan Martin

Publication date 14 July 2021

Published in Sankhyā. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2883

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes factorembeddinggoodness-of-fitimportance samplingnoninformative priorpredictive matching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15)

Abstract: We propose a Bayesian test of normality for univariate or multivariate data against alternative nonparametric models characterized by Dirichlet process mixture distributions. The alternative models are based on the principles of embedding and predictive matching. They can be interpreted to offer random granulation of a normal distribution into a mixture of normals with mixture components occupying a smaller volume the farther they are from the distribution center. A scalar parametrization based on latent clustering is used to cover an entire spectrum of separation between the normal distributions and the alternative models. An efficient sequential importance sampler is developed to calculate Bayes factors. Simulations indicate the proposed test can detect non-normality without favoring the nonparametric alternative when normality holds.

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